American Musicological Society, New York State - St. Lawrence Chapter (NYSSL)

We are excited to share with you the program for the 2026 Annual Meeting of the New York State Saint Lawrence Chapter of the American Musicological Society taking place at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, in the Music Library, 1-2 May 2026.  There will be opportunities for networking and a Graduate Student Workshop.   Check out all the details in our 2025 program Please register in advance, if possible, using this link .  Let us know if you have any questions or if you need any special accommodations.  We look forward to seeing you in Toronto in a few short weeks!  On behalf of the NYSSL Chapter Executive Committee,  Carolyne Sumner (Secretary-Treasurer)

/> Host Institution: University of Toronto, Faculty of Music, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Chairs: Professor Carolyne Sumner Date: 1-2 May 2026 Deadline for proposals: February 10, 2026 We are pleased to announce that the 2026 Annual Meeting of the New York State St. Lawrence Chapter of the American Musicological Society will take place on Friday and Saturday 1-2 May, in Toronto, hosted by the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto and chaired by Professor Carolyne Sumner.  We welcome proposals for 20-minute presentations on all areas of scholarship in music, in addition to proposals for panels or alternate format sessions. We also encourage proposals for a session of lightning talks consisting of five-minute research presentations on any topic (including work-in-progress).   Please use this submission form to submit proposals for all types of presentations. For 20-minute presentations and alternate format sessions, please share an abstract of no more than 250 words. For...

We are excited to share with you the program for the 2025 Annual Meeting of the New York State Saint Lawrence Chapter of the American Musicological Society.  There will be opportunities for networking and a Graduate Student Workshop.   Check out all the details in our 2025 program Please register in advance, if possible, using this link .  Let us know if you have any questions or if you need any special accommodations.  Our heartfelt thanks to the hosting organization, the University of Ottawa School of Music and in particular to the Annual Meeting Organization Committee Chair, Lori Burns.  We look forward to seeing you in Ottawa in a few short weeks!  On behalf of the NYSSL Chapter Executive Committee,  Carolyne Sumner (Secretary-Treasurer)

Dear colleagues,   Please be informed of my resignation as President of the NYSSL Chapter of the American Musicological Society, effective immediately. When I accepted the role of President of the Chapter in the Summer of 2024, I did so with the conviction that my voluntary contributions could build on a strong legacy of dedication to the organization and promotion of musicological work throughout the international geographical jurisdiction of our Chapter, one that serves an incredibly diverse, inspiring, and engaged musicological community. I remain convinced that the Chapter should pursue this work. However, the political situation of the past few weeks, and especially that of the past few days, has compelled me to decide to withdraw my service from the AMS. As a Canadian citizen, I have very little leverage with which to express my utter dismay with the actions and policies of the current American government. On March 4, 2025, the Trump administration implemented a series of cri...

Host Institution: University of Ottawa, School of Music, Ottawa, Ontario,Canada Chairs: Professors Lori Burns and Christopher Moore Date: 9-10 May 2025 Deadline for proposals: February 1, 2025 We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Annual Meeting of the New York State St. Lawrence Chapter of the American Musicological Society will take place on Friday and Saturday 9-10 May, in Ottawa, hosted by the School of Music, University of Ottawa and chaired by Professors Lori Burns and Christopher Moore.  We welcome proposals for 20-minute presentations on all areas of scholarship in music, in addition to proposals for panels or alternate format sessions. We also encourage proposals for a session of lightning talks consisting of five-minute research presentations on any topic (including work-in-progress).   Please use this submission form to submit proposals for all types of presentations. For 20-minute presentations and alternate format sessions, please share an abstract of n...

We are excited to share with you the program for the 2024 Spring Meeting of the New York State Saint Lawrence Chapter of the American Musicological Society.  The panels and lightning talks explore the following topics, among others:  > Exile, Diaspora, and Transnational Dialogues  > Music in New York  > Piano Music from Composition to Performance  > Sound and Media Studies  > Gender and Singing Spaces  The keynote address will be offered by Emily Abrams Ansari (University of Western Ontario) and its title is “ Music as Craftivism : The “Quiet” Feminist Activism of Ann Southam’s Minimalist Piano Works ”. There will be many networking opportunities and a Graduate Workshop "On Specialized Writing, from Grants to Books", facilitated by William Gibbons (SUNY) and Emily Abrams Ansari.  Check out all the details in the beautiful program here .  Find logistic information and suggestions for accommodation  here . Please register i...

Host Institution: State University of New York, Potsdam, New York, USA Chair: Professor Erin Brooks Date: April 12-13, 2024 Deadline for proposals: Thursday, February 1, 2024 We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Annual Meeting of the New York State St. Lawrence Chapter of the American Musicological Society will take place on Friday and Saturday 12-13 April, at Potsdam (USA), hosted by the State University of New York Potsdam and chaired by Professor Erin Brooks.  We welcome proposals for 20-minute presentations on all areas of scholarship in music, in addition to proposals for panels or alternate format sessions. We also encourage proposals for a session of lightning talks consisting of five-minute research presentations on any topic (including work-in-progress).   Please use this submission form to submit proposals for all types of presentations. For 20-minute presentations and alternate format sessions, please share an abstract of no more than 250 words. For 5-mi...

 Dear all,  With the 2023  AMS Annual Meeting  coming up, we wanted to  invite  you to make the most of the meeting by connecting with other  NYSSL  Chapter members and talking to your Chapter leaders.  On Thursday, November 9, 5pm - 6:15pm Find our  table  at the  Joint Interest Group and Affiliates Fair  (Location:  South Convention Lobby) On Friday, November 10 ,  5:30pm - 7pm Meet with us for  an informal gathering.  We will gather at the  hotel bar  at  5:30pm . If it is not convenient to stay there (too many people, too noisy, etc.), we can walk as a group to another place at around 5:45pm. If you wish to gather and are afraid you may miss us at the hotel bar, feel free to send Cintia ( cristiacintia-at-gmail.com ) an email with your phone number, so that she can text you our location.  Looking forward to seeing you all! On behalf of the Executive Committee,  Cintia Cristi...

Dear members,   Final version of the Annual Meeting Program We are now ready to share with you the final version of the program. Please download it from here and keep it handy. If you have not registered for the Annual Meeting yet, you can still do it following a link provided.   Student representative: call for statements of interest   If you are a graduate student and you are Interested in becoming a graduate representative, please send a brief bio and statement of interest to  ams.nyssl at gmail.com  by April 16. Feel free to talk with Sadie Menicanin, one of our current reps who will be in Montreal, about what the role involves. There’s more information about this on our Instagram feed (@ams_nyssl). Student Travel Contribution If you are a graduate student and you are attending Montreal’s meeting from more than 50 km away, you can send a reimbursement request to ams.nyssl at gmail.com . The Chapter will contribute $50 towards travel expenses of students fro...

Dear Members,  The Preliminary Programme of our 2023 Chapter Meeting is ready! Please download it from here.   Looking forward to seeing you all in Montreal! Cintia Cristiá, on behalf of the Organizing Committee

Please note: If the links on this document do not work for you, please use the PDF version that was emailed to you. Thanks!           

2023 Annual Meeting of the NYSSL Chapter of the American Musicological Society Faculté de musique de l’Université de Montréal (Canada), April 14-15, 2023 Hosted by the Research Canada Chair in Music and Politics , in collaboration with the  Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et de recherche en musique Deadline for proposals: Friday, February 3, 2023, at 11:59pm   The 2023 Spring Meeting of the New York State / St. Lawrence Chapter of the American Musicological Society will take place on Friday and Saturday 14-15 April at the Faculté de musique de l’Université de Montréal, province of Quebec. Information on local hotels, B&Bs and restaurants will be posted on our website as it becomes available. We welcome papers on all topics, in addition to panel recommendations. We also wish to encourage proposals for a session of lightning talks consisting of five-minute research presentations on any topic. Please use this submission form to submit proposals for both types of ...

Dear colleagues, It’s with great pleasure that we announce that the 2023 edition of the NYSSL AMS Chapter Annual Meeting will be held on April 14 th and 15 th 2023 , at the Music Faculty of Université de Montréal (Canada).  The event will be organized by the Canada Research Chair in Music and Politics , directed by Marie-Hélène Benoit-Otis , Associate Professor of Musicology at Université de Montréal, in collaboration with the Observatoire interdisciplinaire de recherche et de création en musique (OICRM). Also, we are pleased to announce that the keynote conference will be given by Monica Hershberger , Assistant Professor of Music at SUNY – Geneseo. Please note that the call for proposals will be launched on November 15 th . Prepare your papers! -- Cher·es collègues, C’est avec grand plaisir que nous annonçons que l’édition 2023 de la rencontre annuelle de la section New York / Vallée du Saint-Laurent d’AMS se tiendra les 14 et 15 avril 2023 à la Faculté de musiq...

Dear members,  The program for our coming Annual Meeting has been shared on the Upcoming Meetings page .  Please register here ; this year's meeting fee is $20 for full-time faculty and $10 for part-time faculty, students, independent scholars, and others. More information about lodging and local arrangements has been posted below the conference program and shared through our Google groups mailing list.   Looking forward to seeing you all in Rochester,  AMS-NYSSL Chapter and Conference Hosts. 

Location and dates: Eastman School of Music (Rochester), April 9-10, 2022 Deadline for proposals: Wednesday, February 23 The 2022 spring meeting of the New York State – Saint Lawrence chapter of the American Musicological Society will take place on Saturday and Sunday, April 9-10 at the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester) in Rochester, New York. We welcome proposals for 20-minute presentations on all areas of scholarship in music, in addition to proposals for panels or other alternative format sessions. In keeping with Eastman’s Centennial Celebration , we would like to encourage proposals dealing with any kind of musical performance or with the history and politics of music education in the United States. The Chapter Meeting will also take place concurrently with the 50th-anniversary conference of the Music Theory Society of New York State; panel proposals combining presentations by musicologists and music theorists would be especially welcome.  The conference will f...

We are very happy to share with you that our chapter's next annual meeting will be organized jointly by the Eastman School of Music , as part of their Centennial celebration, and the Music Theory Society of New York State , who are celebrating their 50 year anniversary.  The conference is scheduled for  April 9-10, 2022 (Sat-Sun) at Eastman (Rochester, NY) . A call for papers will follow soon. Please save the date!  We look forward to seeing you all there. 

  AMS NYSSL 2021 Chapter Meeting Registration Link: https://forms.gle/kBX6nX4uVxiPzCmi8 Full-time faculty - US$20 Grad students, part-time faculty, independent scholars, and others - US$10 Schedule: Thursday, April 15 9 am Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:15 am Music and Propaganda Chair: Christina Baade, McMaster University Cheers to the End, or How the BBC Handled Empire Day Broadcasting After World War II   Trevor R. Nelson, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester Listening to German-Japanese Relations through Felix Weingartner’s Die   Dorfschule (1919) Amanda Hsieh, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Mozart in the Axis: The Italian Delegation at the “Mozart Week of the German Reich” (1941) Marie-Hélène Benoit-Otis, Universite de Montreal Gabrielle Prud’homme, Universite de Montreal/University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna 10:30 am Recovering Female Professionals   Chair: Derek Strykowski, University at Buffalo (SUNY) “A Notorious Lady”...